enlacement

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as if with a lace.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of enlacing, or the state of being enlaced; an encircling; embracement.

Etymologies

enlace +‎ -ment, or from French? (Wiktionary)

Examples

The brighter stars clustered into well known groups upon a background formed of an enlacement of streams and convoluted windings and intertwined spirals of fainter stars, which became richer and more intricate in the irregularly rifted zone of the Milky Way.